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Not sure how the girl's skin tone is relevant, but apart from that... (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Basing your opinions on socialism on how Russia implemented it makes about as much sense as basing an opinion on Democracy on how Putin has implemented it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How the USSR implemented socialism was pretty great in practice, the real history of it has just been hidden from you behind the thick fog of cold-war anticommunist propaganda.

Here's a good intro video: Michael Parenti - Reflections on the overthrow of the USSR

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

A lot of people don't realize that the Soviet Union was seen as a bastion of democracy before the cold war, because it genuinely got a lot right.

In fact, it was democratic to a fault. Ultimately it was the people who voted to bring capitalism into the country. It was all downhill from there.